Me too. You have no idea how tedious it is to train a parrot to repeat back a packet. (It's a little modification to rfc2549 that I'm working on. This one includes redundancy in case the avian carrier drops the packet itself...)
The thought has cross my mind. There are numerous issues though. The terrain here is hilly-borderline-mountainous. I'd be looking at having to put anywhere from a 50 foot to a 120 foot tower to get good coverage on enough neighbors to make it functional, which means that I'd be looking at a rather large capital expenditure to do so. The $700/mo figure is for 10mbps, and 20mbps was around $900/mo - what, I'm going to divvy that up to 1mbps per customer when the guy who can't run his existing ubnt is promising (but not delivering) 3mbps for $60/mo? I won't be able to charge $70 to even remotely break even - it would probably be more on the order of $125 to break even this side of 5 years. And I don't have the capital funds to build the tower in the first place. Now to muddy the waters a bit, there are two other happenings occurring in our area: one is that a cookie-cutter McMansion neighborhood with houses on 1/4 acre lots is going up right as we speak and has been so for the past year or two, and will come within 2 1/2 to 3 miles of my location. Starting price is $500,000 which for my area is a bit on the pricey side. The other development is that our electric coop has been having talks recently with GVTC about some sort of a partnership, as the coop serves a lot of areas where the options for internet access are even worse than where I'm at. If that's on the horizon as well, it wouldn't make sense to make this capital expenditure that I'd end up having to eat big time... So I'm rather stuck for now.
Hell, $5000 is chump change. I'm about that distance from the nearest fiber run, and the *best* quote I can get for 10 mbps fiber (symmetric) from Windstream is $700+ per month with a 3 year contract. That's no $5000 build-out charge. I'd pay $5000 in a heartbeat to get the connectivity if that's all it took for me.
Oh gawd I hope so. And not just for something that most of us here tend to agree is a minor issue, but how about any and all criminal activity that occurs? Make them [the carriers] legally and criminally liable for all cases of kiddie porn, for example.
Actually that is a strange statistic that I'm kind of curious about - what is the ratio of ownership of iPhones versus Android phones in the hands of people who have perpetrated such crimes.
Most any contract that I've seen for a 1099 position that stipulates remuneration based upon hours of work performed state that the company contracting for these services does not have the right to dictate any terms to how the work is performed during those times. To the best of my knowledge, in the USA at least, dictating to contract workers that they have to work in a certain location using these systems at these hours and under this type of surveillance pushes the company closer to "conversion". In other words, at least the IRS would be likely to take issue with this arrangement, as the company is using the 1099 payment arrangement on what amounts to actual employees in order to evade taxes.
Agent J: World class serial killer out there and we're having pie
Young Agent K: What you do with your spare time stretch?
Agent J: Arrrgh....
Young Agent K: You see I sense you not embracing the concept here. Pie don't work unless you let it
Agent J: I'm gonna, I'm gonna let it.
Young Agent K: When you said we don't talk, right? Go ahead ask me any question, anything you want just as long as it doesn't have to do with the case. Just let her rip.
Agent J: What's up with you and O?
Young Agent K: Me and O?
Agent J: Yeah, you and O.
Young Agent K: Alright, alright. Alright, this is it: a while back, I was assigned to keep tabs on a musician, Mick Jagger, he was in this British group, Rolling Stones...
Agent J: Rings a bell...
Young Agent K: We believed he was on the planet to breed with Earth women, so I was in London and that's when I met O. She's smart, funny, great smile, and we find ourselves in this pub, Whistlers Bar, warm beer and the worst food you ever ate. We just played darts 'til the sun came up, neither of us wanted to leave...
Agent J: What the hell happened to you, man?
Young Agent K: I don't know, it hasn't happened yet. Come on, what about you, Slick? In the future, you got yourself a girl?
Agent J: I got you!
Are they paying you sufficiently to be a totally controlled slave without any free will at all? If they want something that works non-stop for all hours of the day, they'll get robots. And those are on the horizon...
Damn, the contractor here should be declared a national hero. Anything that gets Trump off of his Twitter pacifer and forces him to, you know, maybe at least put a slight bit more effort into actually performing the duties of POTUS, is probably beneficial to the entire country.
I was going to go with "All green of skin... 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.", if you ACK ACK my ACK ACK.
Nobody believes me that not only did Commander Keen 4 predict what the cloud is like, but that the cloud can get angry and zap you in the butt with lightning....
More importantly, the employer may own the physical device. But the employer does not necessarily own all content generated by the user on the phone. The GP wrongly conflates this as a property ownership issue.
Ask Mrs. Fletcher every time she's fallen and can't get up. She didn't need no stinkin' voice assistant, just the Life Alert device.... (and amazingly, help was always on the way...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Is the POTUS ever off-the-clock? Is there a time of day that he can't be taking a massive crap in a White House toilet and simultaneously order the nukes to strike North Korea? If the answer to this is "no, no such time exists as long as he is the POTUS", then he effectively is extremely limited in his ability to express political speech as a private citizen, for he is the least private of all citizens in the country. And it doesn't matter if he *legally* can force the firings of the players, the fact that he is speaking from his position as POTUS is already enough to consider it an abuse of power in violation of the 1A.
So what? It's not like prisoners normally make "average wages". The state has decided to incarcerate these people for whatever reason, the state can pay to monitor their phone calls.
Are you sure you know what their core business is? I thought it was collecting all possible data, whether factually correct or not, shaking the cup with the bones in it, collecting money from their clients (not us the consumers), and after getting the money, rolling the bones out of the cup and proclaiming "THE BONES HAVE SPOKEN!!!"
What I think about whenever I see any mention of the non-inventor of e-mail: "He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament."
While some of us have a natural knack for being able to come up with effective and unique solutions to unique problems, I'd venture to say that we all had some form of training for that. It's just a different type of training than "use the hammer to dink the widget exactly like so".
This is how I try to describe mortgages to people. Most do not get it. Till you PAY IT OFF it AINT yours, but you are responsible for it lock stock and barrel.
I think you mean "it ain't WHOLLY yours". You do own it and you can make modifications to your property at long as you abide by the terms of the mortgage. I surely don't need permission of the mortgage lender if I wish to pain the house a different color, change out the windows, swap out the toilet, install a pool, or modify my fence.
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Me too. You have no idea how tedious it is to train a parrot to repeat back a packet. (It's a little modification to rfc2549 that I'm working on. This one includes redundancy in case the avian carrier drops the packet itself...)
The thought has cross my mind. There are numerous issues though. The terrain here is hilly-borderline-mountainous. I'd be looking at having to put anywhere from a 50 foot to a 120 foot tower to get good coverage on enough neighbors to make it functional, which means that I'd be looking at a rather large capital expenditure to do so. The $700/mo figure is for 10mbps, and 20mbps was around $900/mo - what, I'm going to divvy that up to 1mbps per customer when the guy who can't run his existing ubnt is promising (but not delivering) 3mbps for $60/mo? I won't be able to charge $70 to even remotely break even - it would probably be more on the order of $125 to break even this side of 5 years. And I don't have the capital funds to build the tower in the first place. Now to muddy the waters a bit, there are two other happenings occurring in our area: one is that a cookie-cutter McMansion neighborhood with houses on 1/4 acre lots is going up right as we speak and has been so for the past year or two, and will come within 2 1/2 to 3 miles of my location. Starting price is $500,000 which for my area is a bit on the pricey side. The other development is that our electric coop has been having talks recently with GVTC about some sort of a partnership, as the coop serves a lot of areas where the options for internet access are even worse than where I'm at. If that's on the horizon as well, it wouldn't make sense to make this capital expenditure that I'd end up having to eat big time... So I'm rather stuck for now.
Hell, $5000 is chump change. I'm about that distance from the nearest fiber run, and the *best* quote I can get for 10 mbps fiber (symmetric) from Windstream is $700+ per month with a 3 year contract. That's no $5000 build-out charge. I'd pay $5000 in a heartbeat to get the connectivity if that's all it took for me.
Oh gawd I hope so. And not just for something that most of us here tend to agree is a minor issue, but how about any and all criminal activity that occurs? Make them [the carriers] legally and criminally liable for all cases of kiddie porn, for example.
Actually that is a strange statistic that I'm kind of curious about - what is the ratio of ownership of iPhones versus Android phones in the hands of people who have perpetrated such crimes.
Most any contract that I've seen for a 1099 position that stipulates remuneration based upon hours of work performed state that the company contracting for these services does not have the right to dictate any terms to how the work is performed during those times. To the best of my knowledge, in the USA at least, dictating to contract workers that they have to work in a certain location using these systems at these hours and under this type of surveillance pushes the company closer to "conversion". In other words, at least the IRS would be likely to take issue with this arrangement, as the company is using the 1099 payment arrangement on what amounts to actual employees in order to evade taxes.
Agent J: World class serial killer out there and we're having pie
Young Agent K: What you do with your spare time stretch?
Agent J: Arrrgh....
Young Agent K: You see I sense you not embracing the concept here. Pie don't work unless you let it
Agent J: I'm gonna, I'm gonna let it.
Young Agent K: When you said we don't talk, right? Go ahead ask me any question, anything you want just as long as it doesn't have to do with the case. Just let her rip.
Agent J: What's up with you and O?
Young Agent K: Me and O?
Agent J: Yeah, you and O.
Young Agent K: Alright, alright. Alright, this is it: a while back, I was assigned to keep tabs on a musician, Mick Jagger, he was in this British group, Rolling Stones...
Agent J: Rings a bell...
Young Agent K: We believed he was on the planet to breed with Earth women, so I was in London and that's when I met O. She's smart, funny, great smile, and we find ourselves in this pub, Whistlers Bar, warm beer and the worst food you ever ate. We just played darts 'til the sun came up, neither of us wanted to leave...
Agent J: What the hell happened to you, man?
Young Agent K: I don't know, it hasn't happened yet. Come on, what about you, Slick? In the future, you got yourself a girl?
Agent J: I got you!
Are they paying you sufficiently to be a totally controlled slave without any free will at all? If they want something that works non-stop for all hours of the day, they'll get robots. And those are on the horizon...
You only need to familiarize yourself with Green & Fazio.
Damn, the contractor here should be declared a national hero. Anything that gets Trump off of his Twitter pacifer and forces him to, you know, maybe at least put a slight bit more effort into actually performing the duties of POTUS, is probably beneficial to the entire country.
You piss on the gov't, the gov't gets wet. The gov't pisses on you? You drown.
I was going to go with "All green of skin... 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.", if you ACK ACK my ACK ACK.
*sqwak!*
Nobody believes me that not only did Commander Keen 4 predict what the cloud is like, but that the cloud can get angry and zap you in the butt with lightning....
More importantly, the employer may own the physical device. But the employer does not necessarily own all content generated by the user on the phone. The GP wrongly conflates this as a property ownership issue.
Ask Mrs. Fletcher every time she's fallen and can't get up. She didn't need no stinkin' voice assistant, just the Life Alert device.... (and amazingly, help was always on the way...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Is the POTUS ever off-the-clock? Is there a time of day that he can't be taking a massive crap in a White House toilet and simultaneously order the nukes to strike North Korea? If the answer to this is "no, no such time exists as long as he is the POTUS", then he effectively is extremely limited in his ability to express political speech as a private citizen, for he is the least private of all citizens in the country. And it doesn't matter if he *legally* can force the firings of the players, the fact that he is speaking from his position as POTUS is already enough to consider it an abuse of power in violation of the 1A.
I agree completely, and I despise the practice. We have far too many people locked up and far too many people being forced into plea-bargain deals.
You *really* think we're imprisoning people primarily to strip them of their voting rights?
I suggest checking this... http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/... as a starter...
So what? It's not like prisoners normally make "average wages". The state has decided to incarcerate these people for whatever reason, the state can pay to monitor their phone calls.
Are you sure you know what their core business is? I thought it was collecting all possible data, whether factually correct or not, shaking the cup with the bones in it, collecting money from their clients (not us the consumers), and after getting the money, rolling the bones out of the cup and proclaiming "THE BONES HAVE SPOKEN!!!"
Something along the lines of "From this day forth, all the toilets in the kingdom shall be known as... Johns!"
What I think about whenever I see any mention of the non-inventor of e-mail: "He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament."
While some of us have a natural knack for being able to come up with effective and unique solutions to unique problems, I'd venture to say that we all had some form of training for that. It's just a different type of training than "use the hammer to dink the widget exactly like so".
This is how I try to describe mortgages to people. Most do not get it. Till you PAY IT OFF it AINT yours, but you are responsible for it lock stock and barrel.
I think you mean "it ain't WHOLLY yours". You do own it and you can make modifications to your property at long as you abide by the terms of the mortgage. I surely don't need permission of the mortgage lender if I wish to pain the house a different color, change out the windows, swap out the toilet, install a pool, or modify my fence.